White_Wolf
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My computer will not boot from the CD-ROM drive. I recently tried an old CD-ROM drive and it was the same thing. This is a big problem when trying to install an operation system onto a blank hard disk.
I was able to install WinXP by downloading a 6 floppy disk program from Microsoft that was specifically made to install WinXP on a computer that won't boot from CD.
But how do I go about installing other operation systems from a CD if my computer won't run the CD-ROM until Windows loads?
What I am asking is: is there a program that can be put on a series of floppy disks that will create a CD-ROM drive capable environment?
Perhaps I should rephrase that question: is there any program that exists that can allow my computer to read from the CD-ROM drive (for the sake of installing an OS) without having to load an operation system to do it?
I tried MS-DOS 6.22 and typed in "D:" to "Z:" and all it told me was "invalid drive specification". So either DOS won't recognize my CD-ROM drive, or I'm not typing in the right command to make it look at the CD-ROM drive.
I was able to install WinXP by downloading a 6 floppy disk program from Microsoft that was specifically made to install WinXP on a computer that won't boot from CD.
But how do I go about installing other operation systems from a CD if my computer won't run the CD-ROM until Windows loads?
What I am asking is: is there a program that can be put on a series of floppy disks that will create a CD-ROM drive capable environment?
Perhaps I should rephrase that question: is there any program that exists that can allow my computer to read from the CD-ROM drive (for the sake of installing an OS) without having to load an operation system to do it?
I tried MS-DOS 6.22 and typed in "D:" to "Z:" and all it told me was "invalid drive specification". So either DOS won't recognize my CD-ROM drive, or I'm not typing in the right command to make it look at the CD-ROM drive.